![]() Neighbors and former lovers described him as moody, unfriendly and prone to angry outbursts at times but expressed shock he would kill.Ĭassidy’s ex-wife, Cecilia Nelms, said he had talked about killing people at work more than a decade ago, describing him as resentful and angry over what he perceived as unfair assignments. While witnesses and Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith have said Cassidy appeared to target certain people, the sheriff’s office said Friday that “it is clear that this was a planned event and the suspect was prepared to use his firearms to take as many lives as he possibly could." What set him off was still being investigated, Aponte said. He had worked there for more than 20 years. “We can just say that the items in the residence were so greatly piled up that it was hampering the investigation and the access to the locations that they needed to check," he said.Ĭassidy killed himself as sheriff’s deputies rushed into the rail yard complex in the heart of Silicon Valley, where he fatally shot nine men ranging in age from 29 to 63. San Jose police Officer Steve Aponte said investigators were slowed down by clutter blocking the home's passageways, calling it “a possible hoarder situation." They did not specify what type of guns they found at his home. The guns he used to kill his co-workers appear to be legal, officials said, without elaborating on how he obtained them. He also had 32 high-capacity magazines and fired 39 shots. The cache at the home the 57-year-old torched was on top of the three 9 mm handguns he brought Wednesday to the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority in San Jose, authorities said. He also rigged an unusual time-delay method to ensure the house caught fire while he was out, using a “pot full of bullets on the stove” along with an accelerant, sheriff's Deputy Russell Davis told the Mercury News of San Jose. Investigators found 12 guns, multiple cans of gasoline and suspected Molotov cocktails at Samuel James Cassidy's house, the Santa Clara County sheriff’s office said in a news release. ![]() ![]() The cache was on top of the three 9 mm handguns and 32 high-capacity magazines that he brought to the rail yard.The Santa Clara County sheriff’s office says investigators found 12 guns, multiple cans of gasoline and suspected Molotov cocktails at Cassidy’s house.Officials said Friday that Samuel James Cassidy had coordinated the fire to coincide with the violence Wednesday at the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority in San Jose.Authorities say a gunman who killed nine of his co-workers at a California rail yard had stockpiled weapons and 25,000 rounds of ammunition at his house before setting it on fire. ![]()
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